MyLuckyChicken

For a Rainy Day

Just a quick post for those of us here in the North East who seem to be having a summer with out sun. I found this fun blog called Toy-A-Day which will be keeping my little men busy tomorrow.

 

Enjoy!

Plastic is Yucky.

In my day to day life, I go out of my way to try to avoid plastic. I drink my filtered water from a Sigg, use glass containers for left overs and all that good stuff. Then I pack my boys lunch and it all goes down the drain. We've been wrapping sandwiches in butcher paper for about a year now which is working fine, but there is a lot of wasted paper. The thing that really gets me is the little plastic snack bags, both because of the health risks and all the plastic in the oceans. So we tried containers but they were too bulky. I needed a solution fast since my oldest is going to camp next week and will be taking a packed lunch. Here's what I came up with (with some help from my good friend Google)...

 2 reusable, washable snack bags and a sandwich bag. The snack bags close with velcro and the sandwich bag top folds over like the old plastic baggies, before zip-lock came along...

My plan is to make a bunch more with my vintage linen stash. I made these from some new fabric I had because it turns out that 6 year old boys do not appreciate the beauty of vintage linens and would rather not be seen with a flowery lunch bag. Go figure.

These were super fun to make and so some may end up in my Etsy shop.

Despite the rain and total lack of sun the past few days,I managed to snap a few pictures of the garden.

I love the color of this yarrow.

 

Some lavender and daises along the front walk.

and some random coolness... how great is this?  http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/look/look-christmas-tree-made-from-300-water-bottles-072045

Why won't typepad let me delete this picture??

 

Inspiration

Being out in my garden, soaking up a little sunshine and getting my hands dirty, hanging vintage linens out to dry,all makes me feel like I am finally waking up from a  long hard winter and I am ready to be creative again. I've pulled my sewing machine up from the basement and the ideas are coming.

One quick creation from last night...

Bubba is finishing up Kindergarten and one big project was to create a hand sewn and embroidered pillow. (I love his school.) He was sick and needed to do some sewing at home. As he finished up he needed a place to put his teacher's pins. A perfect solution/end of year teacher gift...

 

a needle-book made from another piece of the quilt top from way back and some craft felt I had. His teacher is a man so I tried not to make it too girly looking. I must say I loved the end result.

My very generous neighbor gifted me a box of her grandmother's vintage aprons. Some of them hung out to dry...

 

Beautiful right? They will need a few more soakings. The fabric is unbelievably soft and faded. They have been well loved.

And some pictures of the emerging garden...

a tiny slip of an herb garden, those are radishes near the brick.

 

lambs ear, kind of taking over, I'll divide it soon.

 
 

 

The poppies are really amazing this year!

It's good to be back.